Given the current climate, we might safely assume that the comics appearing at tonight's MOR-fest had a polite but firm talking-to before the show - and that no such warning was needed for Cliff Richard. There is a healthy showing from pop acts and the West End's big musicals, but it's the talent-show alumni who really dominate, with performances from Leona Lewis, Only Men Aloud and this year's Britain's Got Talent winner George Sampson.

Christmas at River Cottage8pm, Channel 4

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall invites us all round for yet another Christmas TV dinner, and he has asked his chefs to come up with new recipes for brussels sprouts - with luck, to disguise their taste. No preview DVDs were available, but we can expect to learn how the fat from a cow's kidney improves jam roly poly, and to experience the thrill/guilt of watching a Sika deer being hunted (they're the ones that look just like Bambi).

The Perfect House: The Life and Works of Palladio 9pm, BBC4

"Five hundred years ago, the world's most influential architect was born. His name was Andrea Palladio." It is a bold way to open a documentary, but this film - otherwise unassuming though absorbing - does a good job of justifying the statement. Palladio, we're told, believed in the "poetry of the rulebook" and his greatest achievement was using symmetry and pleasing proportions to create spaces that were intrinsically comfortable, resulting in a style that is still copied the world over.

If the glut of Christmas food specials aired over the last few days hasn't left you feeling too stuffed for pudding, stick with Channel 4 for an hour with the eccentrically named and mannered Willie Harcourt-Cooze. The master chocolatier is trying once again to convince us that his beloved confection really does go with everything. Make cheese with chocolate, he says - indeed, stuff the turkey with it! It makes you wonder why we didn't think of this before.